The Practice of Data Analysis: Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey
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The Practice of Data Analysis: Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey
By (Author) David R. Brillinger
Edited by Luisa T. Fernholz
Edited by Stephan Morgenthaler
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
519.5
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
Description
This collection of essays brings together many of the world's most distinguished statisticians to discuss a wide array of the most important recent developments in data analysis. The book honors John W. Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Contributors, some of them Tu
Reviews
"An eclectic but consistently stimulating collection of essays... Students of statistics will find fresh ideas (and a few potential research topics). Those interested in data analysis will find provocative articles. All will find a remarkably diverse and readable book in which the wisdom/theorem ratio is unusually high."--Journal of the American Statistical Association
Author Bio
David R. Brillinger is Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of "Time Series: Data Analysis and Theory". Luisa T. Fernholz is Associate Professor of Statistics at Temple University and Director of the Minerva Research Foundation. She is the author of" von Mises Calculus for Statistical Functionals". Stephan Morgenthaler is Professor of Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He is the coeditor of "Configural Polysampling".
